ELEMENTS OF DESTRUCTION ARTICLES

June 20, 2008 - A lot of new content hit Xbox Live Marketplace in the past five days, but none of it really wowed us. There are Arcade games, music game tracks, free demos, full games and an assortment of other goodies on Microsoft's download service this week. We absorbed them all, ran them through the supercomputers we call our brains and judged.

June 18, 2008 - THQ Inc. today announced Elements of Destruction, an action-packed game that allows players to be masters of their own disasters, is now available for download on the Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Also available for Windows PC and Nintendo DS, the game allows players to take complete control over the elements including sending tornadoes spinning wildly into buildings, causing explosive lightning strikes or shaking buildings to the ground with massive earthquakes. Elements of Destruction is now available for download via the Xbox Live Marketplace for the Xbox 360 at the suggested retail price of 800 Microsoft Points.

June 16, 2008 - More than two years ago a title by the name of Tornado Mania made its way to wireless handsets everywhere. It brought a fun-filled destructive nature to the simplistic mobile playground and it earned an incredible 10.0 from IGN's wireless channel. Elements of Destruction expands on the single-minded Tornado Mania and gives players the ability to summon electrical storms and earthquakes, as well as the windy cyclones. It's simplistic, it's fun, and it lets you cause billions of dollars of damage without a care in the world.

April 8, 2008 - Vicious Engine, a leading middleware solution developed by Vicious Cycle Software, has been selected by Frozen Codebase, a talented game studio composed of industry veterans responsible for Quake IV, Homeworld and Anarchy Online, to power their upcoming Xbox Live Arcade title Elements of Destruction. An engaging, frenetic game where players use the spectacularly destructive powers of nature to raze and blaze as they desire, Elements of Destruction also proves once again the Vicious Engine's utility in quickly empowering game development teams to realize their interactive entertainment visions.

February 14, 2008 - There's something inherently cool to decimating an entire city block. Toss in a few of nature's most basic natural disasters and things are suddenly escalated to a new level of intensity. Elements of Destruction (EOD) packages both of these scenarios together and ties them together with simple mechanics and a reasonably cohesive story. While the gameplay hasn't changed all that much since the game's stint on the Nintendo DS earlier this year, that doesn't mean that XBLA addicts won't lose themselves in this enjoyable download when it launches this spring.